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Who was Ismail Haniyeh and why is his assassination a blow to Hamas?"
The Reuters headline was later changed to read Reuters categorically denies that it had prior knowledge of the attack or that we embedded journalists with Hamas on Oct. 7,
the outlet said at the time Ismail Haniyeh explicitly calls for the use of women and children as human shields Here’s your ‘moderate’ Reuters,
Philanthropist Adam Milstein wrote You have got to be kidding me, Reuters (This is not a joke. And no, I am not surprised),
journalist Yashar Ali posted on X alongside a screenshot of the original Reuters headline When @Reuters calls #Haniyeh - one of the masterminds of the October 7th massacre - ‘the more moderate face of Hamas,’ they mean he only wanted to destroy Israel but not conquer the entire world. How depraved are these people?"
Newsweek contributor Joel M. Petlin commented Tough-talking Haniyeh was seen as the more moderate face of Hamas,
A Reuters obituary about the Hamas political chief, headlined The blood of the children, women and elderly…we need this blood so that it will ignite within us the spirit of revolution, so that it will arouse within us persistence, so that it will arouse within us defiance and advance,
he said, in television footage shared by Honest Reporting Probably good to keep this headline in mind when you read anything from this outlet,
Free Press founder Bari Weiss replied Singapore is deeply concerned about recent developments in the Middle East, including the killing of the Hamas political leader in Iran who was involved in negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza,
a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement Singapore calls on all parties to take de-escalatory steps to avoid exacerbating tensions and a wider regional conflagration,
the MFA spokesperson added If Israel and the US are smart, then they will take this victory image that they were looking for in order to get out of Gaza,
But assassinating Haniyeh in Tehran is a major blow to Iran’s self-esteem and not something that can be disregarded,
Haniyeh was not considered a hardliner. He was a unifying man and he was ready to compromise. Now with his absence, [Israel] may need to deal with a hardliner person from the top [brass] of Hamas,
Because of unconditional US backing, Israel feels empowered to act as it sees fit and the latest manifestation of that
are the recent events in Beirut and Tehran ... Rahman told Al Jazeera What this attack does is it breathes new life into the Israel army’s high branch. They are saying, ‘Hey, we can still do stuff and we are not as incompetent as we appeared’,
Counter-intuitively, some Israeli officials may say this [assassination] brings us closer to a ceasefire, because we have a victory narrative now,
[But] I don’t think Iran wants a major escalation,
US support [for Israel] is one of the main factors behind everything that has transpired since October 7, and the threat of regional war also stems from that,
[Israel’s attack] could provoke coordinated retaliation by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, using more sophisticated and lethal weapons,
Using his company WhatsApp, Israeli intelligence installed spyware on Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh phone via a WhatsApp message."